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Seminar entitled “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India:
Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47” will be held on Tuesday 04 June 2019.

Date and time

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 18:30〜20:30(Venue opens at 18:00)

Venue

Conference Room 6, 17th Floor, Global Front Building, Surugadai, Campus, Meiji University

Map

Entry fee

Free

Language

English

Sponsor

Meiji University Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer

Time Table

18:30-19:30 Presentation Aparajith Ramnath, “International networks and aircraft manufacture in late-colonial India: Hindustan Aircraft Limited, 1940-47”.
19:30-19:40 Comment (1) K.Yokoi (Meiji University)
19:40-19:50 Comment (2) S,Watanabe (Tohoku Gakuin University)
19:50-20:00 Short break
20:00-20:30 Question & Answer
chair M.Takeuchi (Nihon University)

Speaker’s profile

Aparajith Ramnath is Assistant Professor at Ahmedabad University. Aparajith is a historian of science, technology and industry in South Asia. He is the author of The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State, 1900-47 (Oxford University Press, 2017). Aparajith did his postgraduate work in the history of science, medicine and technology at Oxford University (MS) and Imperial College London (PhD).
From 2013-17, he was Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode. His present book project is a study of the career of Sir M. Visvesvaraya (1861-1962), a prominent engineer/administrator/technocrat who was a leading advocate of heavy industrialisation in India.